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Lucie Steinhagen collection

Document | Accession Number: 2018.102.1

Contains photographs of theatrical productions at the Deggendorf DP camp; photos of friends who perished; lyrics of songs sung at Theresienstadt; and document granting police permission to travel on a street car in Freiberg, issued to Rita Rosenberger, dated 1942.

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Scrip, valued at 1 krone, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, obtained by inmate Lucie Fried (Steinhagen). Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Lucie was deported to Theresienstadt from Vienna, Austria in August 1942, accompanied by her mother, Fanny Fried, and her grandmother, Jeanette Weiss. Lucie had a job in the Jewish-run record office at Theresienstadt, which she credited as the reason she and her mother were never assigned to a transport out, and helped to get her grandmother off of the transport she was assigned to. Jeannette died after about five months, but Lucie and Fanny lived in Theresienstadt for three years until the Soviet Army liberated the camp on May 9, 1945. They eventually re-located to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where Lucie met Gerhard Steinhagen, a refugee from Berlin who had also been imprisoned at Theresienstadt in June 1942. The two would eventually marry in New York in 1947.

Scrip, valued at 1 krone, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, obtained by inmate Lucie Fried (Steinhagen). Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Lucie was deported to Theresienstadt from Vienna, Austria in August 1942, accompanied by her mother, Fanny Fried, and her grandmother, Jeanette Weiss. Lucie had a job in the Jewish-run record office at Theresienstadt, which she credited as the reason she and her mother were never assigned to a transport out, and helped to get her grandmother off of the transport she was assigned to. Jeannette died after about five months, but Lucie and Fanny lived in Theresienstadt for three years until the Soviet Army liberated the camp on May 9, 1945. They eventually re-located to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where Lucie met Gerhard Steinhagen, a refugee from Berlin who had also been imprisoned at Theresienstadt in June 1942. The two would eventually marry in New York in 1947.

Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, obtained by inmate Lucie Fried (Steinhagen). Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Lucie was deported to Theresienstadt from Vienna, Austria in August 1942, accompanied by her mother, Fanny Fried, and her grandmother, Jeanette Weiss. Lucie had a job in the Jewish-run record office at Theresienstadt, which she credited as the reason she and her mother were never assigned to a transport out, and helped to get her grandmother off of the transport she was assigned to. Jeannette died after about five months, but Lucie and Fanny lived in Theresienstadt for three years until the Soviet Army liberated the camp on May 9, 1945. They eventually re-located to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where Lucie met Gerhard Steinhagen, a refugee from Berlin who had also been imprisoned at Theresienstadt in June 1942. The two would eventually marry in New York in 1947.

Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, obtained by inmate Lucie Fried (Steinhagen). Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Lucie was deported to Theresienstadt from Vienna, Austria in August 1942, accompanied by her mother, Fanny Fried, and her grandmother, Jeanette Weiss. Lucie had a job in the Jewish-run record office at Theresienstadt, which she credited as the reason she and her mother were never assigned to a transport out, and helped to get her grandmother off of the transport she was assigned to. Jeannette died after about five months, but Lucie and Fanny lived in Theresienstadt for three years until the Soviet Army liberated the camp on May 9, 1945. They eventually re-located to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where Lucie met Gerhard Steinhagen, a refugee from Berlin who had also been imprisoned at Theresienstadt in June 1942. The two would eventually marry in New York in 1947.

Yellow factory-printed Star of David badge worn by Lucie Fried (later Steinhagen) while living in Vienna, Austria. After the German annexation of Austria in 1938, anti-Jewish legislation was quickly introduced and Jewish-owned businesses and property were confiscated. Lucie had to leave her public school, her mother lost the family retail store, and her brother was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for three weeks before immigrating to the United States. A quota on Polish immigrants prevented Lucie's Polish born mother, Fanny, from obtaining a visa for the United States. Lucie stayed with Fanny in Vienna and began volunteering at a Jewish-run community garden. On September 1, 1941, all Jews in the Reich six years of age or older were required to wear a badge which consisted of a yellow, black-outlined Star of David with the word “Jew” printed inside the star in German or in the local language. The badge was used to stigmatize and control the Jewish population. Lucie wore this badge everywhere she went, until she, her mother, and her grandmother were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in August 1942. Her grandmother died after five months, but Lucie and Fanny lived in Theresienstadt for three years until the Soviet Army liberated the camp on May 9, 1945. They eventually re-located to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp before immigrating to New York in 1946.

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